New User Complaints (from CVS User Perspective)

[Tom Browder <TB...@cox.net>]

OK, got subversion up and running on my local host--great so far.

Besides my wish for the equivalent of CVS's rtag command, I would really
appreciate the equivalent of CVS's '.cvsignore'--it would be a Good Thing
for subversion. (By the way, the 'Book' says that the .cvsignore file is
applied recursively--it's not.)

The 'svn propset svn:ignore -F .cvsignore' command works fine until I want
to add a new ignore expression.  Then I have to modify .cvsignore as usual,
and THEN execute the propset command again.  Having subversion automatically
read a local "ignore" file would be great.  I guess I could use the propedit
command, but it doesn't work for me (version 0.24).  Also, using the '.'
alias as a directory doesn't work for propset either.

Tom Browder



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Re: New User Complaints (from CVS User Perspective)

[Max Bowsher <ma...@ukf.net>]

Tom Browder wrote:
> OK, got subversion up and running on my local host--great so far.
>
> Besides my wish for the equivalent of CVS's rtag command, I would really
> appreciate the equivalent of CVS's '.cvsignore'--it would be a Good Thing
> for subversion. (By the way, the 'Book' says that the .cvsignore file is
> applied recursively--it's not.)
>
> The 'svn propset svn:ignore -F .cvsignore' command works fine until I want
> to add a new ignore expression.  Then I have to modify .cvsignore as
usual,
> and THEN execute the propset command again.  Having subversion
automatically
> read a local "ignore" file would be great.  I guess I could use the
propedit
> command, but it doesn't work for me (version 0.24).

Then surely the better answer is to get propedit working, rather than
needlessly duplicating functionality? Exactly how doesn't it work for you?
(It works fine for me.)

Also, what version are you *really* using, given that 0.24 doesn't exist
yet?

> Also, using the '.'
> alias as a directory doesn't work for propset either.

Hmm, works for me. I see a minor cosmetic glitch:

$ svn ps svn:ignore foo .
property `svn:ignore' set on ''

There's nothing between the "set on" quotes.


Max.


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Re: New User Complaints (from CVS User Perspective)

[Ben Collins-Sussman <su...@collab.net>]

"Tom Browder" <TB...@cox.net> writes:

> Besides my wish for the equivalent of CVS's rtag command

Didn't you ask about this before?  And didn't I already tell you to
run 'svn cp URL1 URL2'?  It's the equivalent svn command.

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Re: New User Complaints (from CVS User Perspective)

[Garrett Rooney <ro...@electricjellyfish.net>]

Tom Browder wrote:

>The 'svn propset svn:ignore -F .cvsignore' command works fine until I want
>to add a new ignore expression.  Then I have to modify .cvsignore as usual,
>and THEN execute the propset command again.  Having subversion automatically
>read a local "ignore" file would be great.  I guess I could use the propedit
>command, but it doesn't work for me (version 0.24).  Also, using the '.'
>alias as a directory doesn't work for propset either.
>

Umh, you seem to be misunderstanding, there doesn't have to be any 
.cvsignore file at all.  Subversion uses the svn:ignore property for 
this purpose so you don't have to clutter your tree with those files.  
If you want to edit the property, just use 'svn propedit svn:ignore .'

-garrett


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